Well that settles it then. I couldn’t be a Xtian even if I wanted to. I don’t hate my family enough. There are a couple if in-laws I could work up a bit of resentment towards if I tried really really hard…

When people insist that the atheist can’t really be happy, they love to imply that there’s something shallow about anyone for whom an imperfect world is “enough.” They aspire to Higher things.

But in their own lives, what do they think of people who sneer at faults and flaws and demand nothing short of perfection? How do they view parents who withhold praise from children who get “B”‘s on their report cards and aesthetics who can’t stand any art that isn’t up to the ideal standard?

They think of them as shallow, as failing to appreciate what is and chasing instead after some illusion that can never really be good enough. The depth of one’s capacity to love often isn’t measured by how worthy the object is, but by how much it isn’t.

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But.. Um, remember Mother Theresa, who said suffering was what got you closer to God, as she wasted money on other nonsense instead of helping the poor orphans etc? (Poor -> suffering -> closer to God). Does that mean atheists are reaaally close, then, mr Linker?

OTHER PEOPLE’S suffering, not her own. She liked to bathe in the reflected glory of the misery of others. She was nothing but a highly creative sadist. The Catholic church specialises in such people apparently.

It’s actually the shadow of the cosmic saucer, it’s part of the same set of celestial delph that the cosmic teapot is from, spread across the galaxy when the great table cloth trick went wrong, hence why there is sin.